Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Based Handoff Optimization Scheme

Abstract

Hierarchical mobile IPv6 fastens the binding update process of micro mobile handoff and reduces handoff delay. A large number of binding updates and registrations increase signaling load and lengthen handoff delay. For this reason, it is proposed to apply tunneling mechanism to hierarchical mobile IPv6 optimization scheme (T-HMIPv6) to obtain care-of address in advance based on handoff information, conduct duplicate address detection, and complete local binding update while building a tunnel. Simulation experiments show that compared with hierarchical mobile IPv6, this scheme can greatly reduce handoff delay and packet loss rate and effectively improve mobile node's macro handoff performance.